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According to reports, Republicans are employing 12-year-old "child prodigy" Billy Hogbin for the fall presidential election.
WASHINGTON — Though the GOP's presidential candidate is yet to be determined, the Republican Party has already lined up one Mississippi-based politico to aid the campaign to defeat President Barack Obama this fall. His name is Billy Hogbin, and he's 12.
Don't let his age fool you, though — according to insiders, Hogbin is a child prodigy, a genius when it comes to plotting and taking down political adversaries. After providing a crushing defeat against Missy Likens to take the class president post for his third-grade class, Hogbin rose through the ranks to elect his father Brooks County assessor, manage an uncle's mayoral campaign and, finally, was a key figure in several Southern governorships. He went on to author three books on campaigning, as well as maintain the popular conservative blog titled "Simply Hogbin."
According to him, it's all about image.
"The goal is to make yourself look like a good guy — like a super hero or a firefighter," Hogbin said. "And the other guy's a poo-poo head, so make sure you call him a 'poo-poo head.'"
Many of the prominent GOP elite praise Hogbin's innovation.
"His brilliance is unmatched," said one proponent, who asked to not be named. "I've never seen anyone with the kind of election savvy this kid's got. Remember 'No-bama' or 'We speak English, learn it'? Those were Hogbin. Just brilliant. Just the kind of fresh eyes the party needs."
Though voters have yet to see who Hogbin will be helping to attain a victory this fall, plans against Obama have already leaked, including "Democrats? More like DUMB-ocrats" and "Obama? LOL."

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ISTANBUL, February 12 (CDN) — An Istanbul court has ordered the release of a jailed Turk who publicly threatened and held a knife to the throat of a Christian he attacked six months ago.
In a ruling on Wednesday (Feb. 10), the Kadikoy Seventh Court of First Instance convicted Yasin Karasu, 24, of making death threats and mounting an armed attack against Ismail Aydin. Shouting to attract passersby as he held a knife to Aydin's throat on Aug. 3, Karasu had denounced the Christian as a "missionary dog" who had betrayed Turkey by leaving Islam and evangelizing others.
The crime is punishable by four years in prison, but Justice Tahsin Dogan ruled that Karasu should be released unconditionally, without serving the remainder of his sentence.
After the attack last August, the 48-year-old Aydin had declined to press charges against his assailant, who was taken into police custody at the scene. But state prosecutors charged Karasu under criminal statutes for making armed threats, obstructing another's freedom, and attempted harm with a weapon.
He was then sent to prison for the duration of criminal investigations into the case.
After an initial hearing on Jan. 12, Karasu appeared in Istanbul's Kadikoy district courthouse this week for a second trial hearing. Arriving in handcuffs from Istanbul's Metris Prison where he has been incarcerated for the past six months, Karasu erupted in several emotional outbursts as he entered the courthouse with an escort of gendarmerie guards.
At the outset, the prisoner heatedly refused to accept the lawyer his father hired to represent him in court. After a guard removed his handcuffs before he entered the courtroom, Karasu took out of his pocket several handwritten pages, which he said he would submit in his own defense.
Under Turkish law, Karasu's conviction should have left him with a four-year jail term for his death threats and armed attack on Aydin. But the prosecutor, applying a frequently used law of procedures, cited the defendant's "respectful behavior, condition and manners in the courtroom in his favor" and declared that Karasu's good conduct had earned him a one-sixth reduction (eight months) in his sentence.
Together with the six months Karasu has already been jailed, that reduced his four-year prison term to a remaining two years and 10 months.
Nevertheless, the court ruled for Karasu's unconditional release. The Court of Appeal must approve this sentence, however, and his actual release then must be formally approved in writing by the Administrative Board of Penalties.
"It seems that the judge did not take into account at all that this crime was committed with religious hostility," one member of the legal committee of Turkey's Association of Protestant Churches told Compass. "That, in my view, should have aggravated the crime and sentence."
Human rights lawyer Orhan Kemal Cengiz, after reviewing Wednesday's court record, agreed.
"This is also a crime against the freedom of religion," Cengiz said. "This should be another factor to be taken into account, and the sentence should be increased accordingly."
Karasu had taken Aydin hostage by grabbing him around the neck, holding a knife blade to his throat and forcing him along the street to a busy intersection in Istanbul's Kadikoy district. Within minutes both TV crews and police arrived at the scene, watching as Karasu wrapped Aydin's head in a large Turkish flag and continued to taunt him as a traitor to the nation.
"I want to see him set free," Aydin commented outside the courtroom before this week's hearing. Aydin, who converted to Christianity 22 years ago, said he had forgiven Karasu.
Aydin said Karasu had made contact with him several times during the year previous to his attack, asking him questions about the Christian faith. He said Karasu, who was unemployed when he attacked him, had experienced emotional problems and depression while completing the last months of his military service.
Karasu's father, who traveled from Erzurum to attend this week's hearing, told Compass that he could not understand what had caused his son to launch such an attack against Aydin. Confirming that his son had received psychological treatment in the past, he declared his intention to take him back to Erzurum after his release, so that he could live at home and undergo more psychological therapy.
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Whether you're fighting the heat or battling a cold, dehydration is the enemy. But water isn't the only answer -- plenty of foods are hydrating, too. The next time you're feeling thirsty, reach for a snack, says the Cleveland Clinic. You'll not only get the benefit of heavy water content, but will absorb extra nutrients, too.
-- Cucumbers, celery and iceberg lettuce are 95 percent water, making them great choices. If you prefer spinach to iceberg, you'll still benefit from hydrating greens, as spinach is 91 percent water.
-- Watermelon is not only hydrating but contains lycopene, which benefits skin complexion and protects against sun damage.
-- Made up of 92 percent water, cauliflower contains vitamin C, vitamin K and nutrients that may lower cholesterol.
-- Zucchini is nearly 95 percent water, and comes loaded with antioxidants important for eye health.
-- Strawberries offer hydration and flavonoids, which studies have found can improve cognitive function.
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Whether it's a classic PB&J, ham and cheese, or turkey on whole wheat, sandwiches are a favorite for many. Here are three sandwiches that hold Guinness World Records.
-- The largest sandwich weighed 5,440 pounds and was made in 2005 by Wild Woody's Chill and Grill in Roseville, Michigan.
-- The longest sandwich measured 2,411 feet, 5 inches and was created in 2011 by members of three teams in Lebanon.
-- As of 2014, the most expensive sandwich commercially available is the "Quintessential Grilled Cheese," which sells for $214 at Serendipity 3 in New York City. The sandwich is served on two pieces of French Pullman champagne bread, which is made with Dom Perignon champagne and edible gold flakes, with white truffle butter and the very rare Caciocavallo Podolico cheese. The sandwich is served with South African Lobster Tomato Bisque as a dipping sauce.
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If you love all things sweet but want to cut out the sugar, try these natural sweeteners instead.
-- Raw honey: Loaded with enzymes, antioxidants and important minerals, honey is civilization's oldest and maybe most nutritious sweetener, says Smithsonian.com. To get the maximum benefits, buy it raw rather than pasteurized.
-- Stevia: This sugar substitute is not only natural and has zero calories, but studies show that Stevia can even lower blood pressure, according to NCBI.
-- Coconut sugar: As coconut water grows in popularity, more people are discovering the nutrient-rich benefits of coconut sugar.
-- Maple syrup: If you've only been using it on pancakes and waffles, you're missing out. Try it as salad dressing, over vegetables or drizzled over yogurt.
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When we talk about food and allergies, the conversation often turns to foods that cause an allergic reaction. But many foods have been found to treat allergies as well. The next time you're sneezing and sniffling, try these natural ingredients that WebMD says could ease your symptoms:
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-- Bromelain, an enzyme found in pineapple, is thought to minimize asthma irritation.
-- According to Lawrence Rosen, M.D., "If you take small doses of (local) honey early in the season, you may develop a tolerance toward pollen in your area."
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DC sports fans are gearing up for the most hyped debut in Washington sports history, as fans have dubbed Tuesday Strasmas Day in anticipation of the major league debut of pitcher Stephen Strasburg, aka Baseball Jeezus.
With the team expected to choose hitting phenom Bryce Harper today with the #1 pick in baseball's amateur draft, Nats fans see this week as a symbolic turning point in the short history of the franchise.
The Nationals are surely eager to send the message that a new era has arrived. With a record sellout crowd expected, and every major national media outlet on hand, what better opportunity could the Nats have to let Teddy win? It seems a wise move, both to send a signal to the fans, and to avoid risking a chorus of 41,000 boos during their moment in the spotlight.
Here's hoping history is made on the warning track as well as the pitcher's mound.
One character who clearly hopes to prevent it is Abe Lincoln. The all-time presidents race victory leader has set aside his dirty tricks and gone on a tear, earning his 5th consecutive come-from-behind victory Sunday at Nationals Park. Teddy's eyeglasses fell off his nose, but he gutted it out and finished the race blind. We're hoping he manages to get them fixed on his off day today. The racing presidents were sporting their traditional period garb for just the second time this season.
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Rice University grad student Ryan Guerra is on a mission to extend the range of WiFi signals from a few hundred feet to a mile—and beyond. This month, he succeeded, thanks to some nifty engineering and a few empty TV channels.
The first beneficiary of his work is Houston resident Leticia Aguirre, 48, who lives at the very edge of a local free WiFi network run by Technology for All. The high frequencies (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) used by WiFi mean that signals don't easily penetrate the tree branches and leaves which surrounded Aguirre's home.
On the "deadest, stillest day of winter" the signal might be reliable, Guerra told me, but most of the year, it has been frustratingly intermittent. Even though the WiFi connection was free and Aguirre can't afford DSL or cable, her experience was so poor she considered canceling the service.
Guerra decided to use Aguirre's home as the first location for new "Super WiFi" test gear being developed and tested at Rice. Instead of relying on traditional WiFi frequencies, the Super WiFi project downshifts the signal into an empty TV channel—in this case, channel 29, which has the additional virtue of having empty adjacent channels, as well.
Guerra is part of a Rice team led by professors Edward Knightly, Robert Stein, Lin Zhong, and William Reed that last year won a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team's goal is basic research on providing broadband in the TV "white spaces"—empty channels that the government recently cleared for use by unlicensed Internet providers. Such tests have been done on a small scale—Microsoft ran a white spaces network on its corporate campus, for instance—but the Rice team wanted a real-world urban environment. They also wanted to start by using existing WiFi protocols.
Guerra was put in charge of creating the Super WiFi gear for Aguirre's home, which was one mile from the Technology for All transmission tower. He began with an off-the-shelf 2.4GHz WiFi card on a computer running Linux. The card's output is piped through a frequency translator prototype from Alcatel Lucent, which shifts the signal down to Channel 29's 563MHz—far better for plowing through trees and walls.
While WiFi channels at 2.4GHz are 20MHz wide, TV channels only have 6MHz of bandwidth, so this setup also has to squeeze the incoming signal down to 5MHz of bandwidth in order to stay safely within channel boundaries (in the future, techniques like channel bonding should increase the available bandwidth). Output from the translator then goes to a small TV antenna on Aguirre's home, where it's sent to the local Pecan Park transmission tower and patched into the fiber backbone connection there.
The setup "actually works very well," says Guerra. The longest link he could make with existing point-to-point WiFi connections was 400-500 feet; with the new Super WiFi gear in the TV band, he can reach a mile—and it's not a point-to-point signal. Instead, the transmitter serves up a directional 60 degree beam, and anyone in its path can receive broadband service.
The wider signal beam also has a side benefit: smaller antennas. Aguirre used to require an antenna mounted on a 30 foot pole in order to get a line-of-sight, point-to-point connection; the newer setup doesn't need this kind of tight alignment, and so Aguirre now uses a much more discreet TV antenna.
Results so far have been good. Rice has worked with mesh WiFi networks for years, but researchers have noted that the quality of channels varies dramatically over time. The new connection has been quite stable, even with leafy trees and through bad weather, and has yet to show any interference or connection problems, even at a mile from the transmitter.
The current approach has some bandwidth limitations. Because it uses existing WiFi protocols but uses only 25 percent of WiFi's bandwidth, Guerra's setup will never get more than 25 percent of WiFi's maximum throughput—and indeed, that's what he's seeing.
The greater range of Super WiFi gear means that the current setup will also run into problems as it scales up. WiFi uses a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) approach to sending data, which means that WiFi transmitters try to detect other nearby transmitters and wait for them to fall silent before sending data of their own. This works pretty well when only a few devices coexist, but it can become chaotic when hundreds of nodes are involved.
As Guerra rolls out his Super WiFi solution to other Pecan Park residents, he anticipates running into CSMA congestion, which will lower the efficiency of the network. Eventually, whole new protocols may be required, probably relying on scheduled access mechanisms in which transmitters are assigned specific time slices wherein they can transmit without having to detect other signals (cell networks often work this way, and companies like Microsoft are already researching new protocols for use in the TV white spaces).
But the work has shown that empty TV channels will be a huge boon for broadband. Urban areas will likely rely on wireline networks, but Guerra sees terrific potential for people like his rural relatives, who need better last-mile connections. If Super WiFi can easily reach a mile in urban conditions, it's likely to go further in rural locations.
Guerra's work doesn't just involve time spent at the lab bench or with computer models, giving him a unique grad school experience. "I didn't realize how unique it was until I started going out in the field and installing equipment," he says, until he would return from a trip to see other grad students looking up in jealousy from their computers.
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By RICHARD CROFTON
CHEBOYGAN — Action items slated to be dealt with by Cheboygan City Council is slated at its meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in council chambers.
1. An acknowledgment of the Cheboygan County Walk for Warmth on Saturday.
2. An $8,000 request for an annual retainer billing from United Design Associates for the years 2009-2012.
3. Council is being asked to allocate its 20 percent share for two road improvement projects including $20,000 for West State Street for this year and $35,000 for State Street and Lincoln Avenue in 2014.
4. Council also will consider spending $59,171.32 for Progress Payment No. 13 to Elmer's Crane and Dozer, Inc. for the 2011 Water Main Capital Improvement Project and the purchase to two chlorine cylinder emergency kits for $4,450.
5. City Manager Dale Stuart is asking council to approve a payment authorization policy.
6. Also, a rental policy for Festival Square will be presented for council's consideration.


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Greensburg mayor hopes for reborn town
While the shattered remains of his town lay at his feet, the future of Greensburg is what Mayor Lonnie McCollum has his eyes set on.
An optimistic man, he sees the years ahead as a chance for an aging town to be reborn.
"We have the opportunity for a brand new town. Why not take it? Why not?" said McCollum, who lost his home and several vehicles during the tornado.
He said the town will build a new school, a new hospital and a new city hall. And the situation gives Greensburg leaders the chance
to address aging infrastructure.
A park planned to replace an old building on the southwest corner of Main Street and U.S. 54 is still a go, according to McCollum.
"It will be a lot cheaper now that nature's done the demolition," McCollum said during a Tuesday tour of the town.
An old-values town still keen to the old way of thinking, McCollum said he wants to marry that character with modern conveniences.
He knows that the new and improved Greensburg isn't going to happen overnight.
"But in five years, there will a huge improvement," McCollum said.
"We will get you a lifestyle back, some way, somehow," he said. "It'll be hard, and it will be uncomfortable, but we'll do it."
Despite the fact that he knows some people doubt the city's ability to
overcome Friday night's tornado, McCollum said he wants to see signs in store windows alerting the community of plans to rebuild. Business leaders are already forming a task force to plan for the future.
"Stores and retail drive homes," he said.
The mayor's positive outlook is important in the days, weeks and months ahead, according to City Administrator Steve Hewitt.
"It's easy to focus on the negative here," he said. "You must come to terms with the devastation. ... But once we've recovered, once we've moved past that and we rebuild, that's where I'm certain we will set our city apart from others."
People have told Hewitt that residents will leave. But once the town has recovered, he expects to see two people come to Greensburg for every one resident who left.
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Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)-We are going to bring you a monthly power rankings every month of the season. There will be a few verses for each team. Please feel free to let us know your thoughts.
May Power Rankings
- Texas (19-10) Josh Hamilton is clubbing the ball at his 2010 like AL MVP clip. Yu Darvish appears to be the real deal. Mike Napoli hits 8th on most nights. Michael Young might be the most under-appreciated hitter in the last decade. Ian Kinsler is on pace for 162 runs. If Nelson Cruz starts hitting and or Nathan rounds into form, than this team may blitz by every one.
- Tampa Bay (19-10) The pitching staff is incredible right now. David Price is asserting himself as one of the premier left-handed pitchers in baseball. Strong starts from Evan Longoria, Luke Scott and Carlos Pena have helped. Joe Maddon may be the best 'in-game manager' of baseball now with Tony La Russa out of the Majors.
- Atlanta (18-12) The reason I have Atlanta rated so high is they are not even having a good year from Tim Hudson yet and Jair Jurrjens has been atrocious. Still they sit near the top of the standings. Chipper Jones has 21 RBI and Freddie Freeman has taken the next step so far with 26 RBI. Last year the team had a lot of players with career worst years and they were only eliminated on the last day of the season. This year may be different.
- St. Louis (18-11) You lose a franchise player like Albert Pujols and you spend half the money for Carlos Beltran and Rafael Furcal, who are finally hitting the numbers like the back of their bubble gum cards from 5 years ago. Are we giving enough credit to Mark McGwire here? Lance Lynn has morphed into Chris Carpenter with his 6-0 start.
- LA Dodgers (19-10) Matt Kemp is the best player in baseball right now and may walk away with the triple crown this year. Andre Ethier has matured into the RBI guy he needs to be. Solid pitching by Clayton Kershaw, Chris Capuano and Ted Lilly have this team looking solid. Dodgers look good in the future when the new ownership takes over. (more…)


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This coming Wednesday evening at 10:00pm (Eastern Time) we'll be talking with Julia Roth on our BlogTalkRadio.com show. We'll discuss a bit of the Jewish Community's history in Richmond and its evolution to the present time. Mrs. Roth, a mother of 4, attended University of North Carolina where she majored in English Lit; a Chicago native, she currently lives in Richmond, VA.
After spending time with friends in Skokie, IL and seeing how the Chicago Chesed Fund operated neighborhood based food pantries. The idea seemed so simple – neighbors gathering and sharing extra surplus in the community, she thought Richmond could benefit from such an enterprise and presented the project to various members of her circles. The support was astounding as proven by the fact that they opened quickly and have been operating – with a staff of volunteers – for the last 4 weeks with backing from Knesset Beth Israel (Richmond's largest and oldest Orthodox Congregation). For the last 24 years she's been a Hebrew school teacher but she's most passionate about her work as a DONA certified birth assistant or doula – having attended over 100 births.
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Do you have a great idea for a Windows Phone app? Figuring out how you're going to raise money for it? You've come to the right place for a fresh new way to fund your project. Microsoft BizSpark has teamed up with AppCampus to offer grants for select startups in the BizSpark program to build compelling Windows Phone apps. The program offers awards specifically to BizSpark startups, ranging from 20,000-70,000 euros. Even better, the grants are just that. AppCampus don't take equity, revenue share, or IP rights.
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In addition to investing 20,000 – 70,000 euros per project, AppCampus provides grant winners with comprehensive support, training in mobile technology, design and usability, and funding to create mobile apps and services. For those of you who are familiar with our Mobile Acceleration Week program, AppCampus is using this as a model for the technical training portion. When you are ready to distribute your app, Windows Phone Marketplace and Nokia Store also offer local and global business opportunities to program participants via distribution to consumers around the world. In addition to the AppCampus grants, you will benefit from the free Microsoft software, support, and visibility provided by BizSpark.
So, what's the catch?
There isn't one. Simply put, we want to find (and fund) the next great ideas. AppCampus doesn't take a portion of your profits. They just require you to launch your app on Windows Phone or if you have already launched on a competing platform, to offer unique features and capabilities for a period of time.
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- Startups that are innovative and are passionate about bringing their great idea to Windows Phone
- Ideally, the winners wouldn't have an app in a competing marketplace or building. However, an existing app may qualify if you enhance your app significantly on the Windows Phone platform.
- Proactive developers who will take advantage of all the Windows Phone key features as they become available (for example maps, location-awareness, camera, Live Tiles, push notification, etc.)
- The best of the best. AppCampus wants apps that show design elegance, technical quality and performance
- Movers and Shakers! Startups that have the drive and commitment to experiment and adapt as the mobile world changes
AppCampus is particullarly interested in companies also developing on other Microsoft technologies, especially Windows 8 and Windows Azure. In order to apply, you need to be a member of BizSpark.
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The FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday around 1:30 p.m., passengers said, and escorted the man off the airliner.
The man's name has not been released but passengers described him as American. Passengers said he started screaming about 9 hours into the 15-hour flight about being afraid of the FBI and fearing he was going to be killed. He asked that the flight be diverted to Canada.
"He was clearly not stable," said passenger Jacques Roizen of New York, who helped wrestle the man to the cabin floor and sat in the same row as him after he was handcuffed.
Roizen said he and other passengers and a flight attendant jumped on the man and subdued him when he started reaching for his pockets hours. United said it followed its procedures for dealing with disruptive passengers and decided to continue the flight as scheduled.
Passenger Peter Jones of Washington said the passenger called out what he said was his name, his birthdate and his social security number several times, and claimed he worked for the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
Jones said the man claimed to have information about Edward Snowden, a former government contractor who revealed a once-secret National Security Agency surveillance programs two weeks ago.
"He was just saying he had information relating to Ed Snowden and he was being taken back to some safe house somewhere, never to be seen again," Jones said.
A man who said he was on the same flight as the unruly passenger and recorded the incident with his phone played the audio for reporters. The passenger who recorded the clip did not wish to give his name. On the recording the man who caused the incident screamed and repeated "I'm dead" 23 times.
"Snowden? No, he's right! I know this now, I know this because of what just happened to me. He's totally right," the disruptive passenger said, then continued to rant about the NSA.
Jones said he never heard the man threaten passengers or the plane. While the plane was still in the air the FBI said the man had claimed everyone aboard the plane was being poisoned, but the agency later said it was working to clarify what the man said.
"He said something that people are going to poison him, that he was going to die," Jones said.
On the recording the man claimed to work for the government.
"You work for the CIA! If you work for the National Reconnaissance Office, you will not get a trial by jury. You will not get a trial by jury. They think I've done something wrong, put me in front of a judge," he said, "say I'm guilty."
In the audio the man claimed to be "dead already, they're gonna kill me."
Another passenger, Paula Shea of St. Petersburg, Fla., said the man claimed he was married to a Chinese spy.
While sitting in the same row as the subdued man, Roizen said he did his best to try to calm him.
"He was very paranoid," he said.
Associated Press writer David Porter contributed to this report.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Several members of "The Avengers" descended on Comic-Con on Saturday to debut the first footage from the upcoming superhero sequel.
Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner and Robert Downey Jr. were on hand with other cast members from "The Avengers: Age of Ultron," including Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders.
"It just keeps getting better," Downey told the boisterous crowd of 6,500 assembled in the San Diego Convention Center. "I'm so excited we're all here."
The footage kicked off with the Marvel superhero team comically attempting to pick up Thor's mighty hammer off a coffee table.
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Jackson, who most recently starred in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" with Evans, took a moment during the celebration to appreciate the fans.
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"Just a very few words to let you know Im alive and kicking. We are still in this little town in France and I expect we will stay here all winter. I want you to understand that we are living right in the town, although not in houses but barns that ajoin all the houses." –Letter from Sam Avery, 10/28/17
By the end of October, 1917 all the troops of the 26th "Yankee" Division had arrived in France. The infantry brigades, machine gun battalions, engineers, signal battalions and supply trains were assembled in a newly-established AEF training area just south of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern France where Division HQ was established on October 31. Initially troops were billeted in lofts, stables and outbuildings in the surrounding villages until suitable facilities at the training base could be constructed. The 103rd Infantry was billeted at Liffol-Le-Grand and Villouxel to the southwest of Neufchateau.
Liffol-le-Grand was an ancient Roman village of 1,500 inhabitants located 10 kilometers away from Neufchateau. Brigade and Regimental HQ, Headquarters and Supply Companies, 1st and 3rd Battalions and the Machine Gun Battalion were all billeted at Liffol. The 2nd Battalion and a Machine Gun Company were billeted in Villouxel, a smaller village 3 kilometers away.
Starting in early November 1917, intensive training in trench warfare began under the guidance of the 162nd French Infantry, concurrent with the construction of the training center itself including barracks, buildings, telephone lines, hospitals, Y.M.C.A. facilities and other required infrastructure. For the troops stationed at Liffol-le-Grand, instruction was given in the hills beyond Freville. Daily drill and instruction was given for 36 hours a week covering the entire Infantry Drill Regulations and supplemented with practice in grenades, Stokes mortars, 37mm field guns and automatic rifles. Extensive maneuvers and terrain exercises including problems of attack and defense for both trench and open warfare were performed under French supervision. A school for bayonet fighting and hand-to-hand combat was also established by the British for U.S. infantry officers and N.C.O.'s (non-commissioned officers) at Bazoilles.
Gas training began on December 10 after the arrival of a shipment of 25,000 small box respirators and 6,000 gas masks. Due to the limited number of qualified instructors available, the men were trained one battalion at a time in a very preliminary fashion. It was only in late May, 1918 that all the units of the 26th Division had actually tested their protective equipment in the gas chamber, by which time most of the men had already been exposed to gas in combat.
An invaluable feature of the infantry and engineer training at Neufchateau was the construction of a full-sized system of fire, cover and support trenches large enough for a battalion front which were used for practical exercises in attack and defense during December and January. This network of training trenches was nicknamed the "Noncourt Sector" after the nearby village of Noncourt and was used by all units to develop their skills in trench warfare. The Noncourt Sector trench system was called the "Quartier de la Sapiniere" (Sapper's Quarter), with the earthworks named in honor of the New England troops: "Trenche de Boston" (front line of observation), "Trenche de Newport" (line of resistance), and "Trenche de New Haven" (support line).
The Neufchateau area was under observation and occasional attack by German aircraft. The troops adjusted by not moving about in large formations and learning to hastily evacuate billets and buildings to avoid being trapped or killed in a bombing.
Throughout the autumn and early winter of 1917-1918 rain was continuous, turning the drilling grounds into ankle-deep quagmires and the roads into river beds. The troops were always wet and cold, with all facilities mired in mud and clay which made personal cleanliness and maintenance of equipment nearly impossible. No fires were allowed in the lofts and stables where the men were housed. Rations also were initially scanty and irregular, but First Sergeant Sam Avery and the boys were finally "There…"
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National Forests and National Grasslands are publically-owned lands in the United States managed by the U.S. Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The 300,000 square miles of Forest Service land is managed for logging, grazing, habitat protection, and outdoor recreation. Sometimes confused with National Parks, National Forests are quite different—Forests are bigger, generally less popular, don't charge entry fees, and allow managed resource extraction in addition to tourist activities.
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Over the past couple decades the Forest Service has been streamlining and consolidating their operations, and the actual management of their lands is now done by 112 new "combined forests". Essentially, the USFS saw no distinctions between National Forests and National Grasslands, and no reason to honor traditional National Forest boundaries, so they re-organized their holdings as they saw fit to best manage their land.
Some traditional National Forests survived the re-org intact (for example, the Gifford-Pinchot NF, the White Mountain NF), but others were combined, sometimes into entities with bureaucratic names (for example, "National Forests in Texas", "Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit"). Most of the former National Grasslands were merged into these new combined National Forests. The old National Forest names may still appear on signs and maps, but organizationally they don't really exist anymore.
The high point list shown here uses 110 of these new National Forest entities, including the one in Puerto Rico. The only 2 excluded are a new USFS unit entirely composed of former National Grasslands (the Dakota Prairie Grasslands) and the relatively new Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, both of which never had any traditional National Forest land in them.
One advantage of using this new, smaller list of National Forest high points is that many uninspiring peaks in lowlands areas are no longer on the list. For example, the new "National Forests in Mississippi" entity used to be six forests (Holly Springs, Bienville, DeSoto, Delta, Tombigee, Homochitto). In this case, the USFS desire for organizational efficiency aligns nicely with the interests of peakbaggers who prefer "real" mountains.
National Forests tend to have extremely convoluted boundaries. Many of them have a "proclaimed boundary" that may be somewhat regular, but only portions of the land within the proclaimed boundary are actually owned by the USFS. Much of this private land is on the edges of National Forests, but there are also many private inholdings surrounded by public land. There are also cases where an important mountain summit (Mount Washington, NH and Mount Mitchell, NC, for example) are within inholdings that are State Parks and not USFS land. The government is engaged in a long-term effort to purchase inholdings from willing sellers, but this is a very slow process.
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A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate.
Sure, the universe suddenly seems to be showing its age, now calculated at 13.8 billion years — 80 million years older than scientists had thought. It's got about 3 percent more girth — technically it's more matter than mysterious dark energy — and it is expanding about 3 percent more slowly.
But with all that comes the wisdom for humanity. Scientists seem to have gotten a good handle on the Big Bang and what happened just afterward, and may actually understand a bit more about the cosmic question of how we are where we are.
All from a baby picture of fossilized light and sound.
The snapshot from a European satellite had scientists from Paris to Washington celebrating a cosmic victory of knowledge Thursday — basic precepts that go back all the way to Einstein and relativity.
The Planck space telescope mapped background radiation from the early universe — now calculated at about 13.8 billion years old. The results bolstered a key theory called "inflation," which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its vast expanse in a fraction of a second just after the Big Bang that created the cosmos.
"We've uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe," said George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge who announced the Planck findings in Paris. "There's less stuff that we don't understand by a tiny amount."
The map of the universe's evolution — in sound echoes and fossilized light going back billions of years — reinforces some predictions made decades ago solely on the basis of mathematical concepts.
"We understand the very early universe potentially better than we understand the bottom of our oceans," said Bob Nichols, director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in Britain. "We as humanity put a satellite into space, we predicted what it should see and saw it."
Physicist Sean Carroll of the California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the project, called it "a big pat on the back for our understanding of the universe."
"In terms of describing the current universe, I think we have a right to say we're on the right track," he added.
Other independent scientists said the results were comparable on a universal scale to the announcement earlier this month by a different European physics group on a subatomic level — with the finding of the Higgs boson particle that explains mass in the universe.
"What a wonderful triumph of the mathematical approach to describing nature. The precision is breathtaking," Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist, said in an email Thursday. "The satellite is measuring temperature variations in space — which arose from processes that took place almost 14 billion years ago — to 1 part in a million. Amazing."
The Big Bang theory says the universe was smaller than an atom in the beginning when, in a split second, it exploded, cooled and expanded faster than the speed of light — an idea that scientists call inflation. It's based in part on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity — from about 90 years ago.
"The universe is described amazingly well by a simple model," said Charles Lawrence, the lead Planck scientist for NASA, which took part in the research. "What is new is how well the model fits both the old data and the new data from Planck."
The $900 million Planck space telescope, launched in 2009, is named for the German physicist Max Planck, the originator of quantum physics. It has spent 15 1/2 months mapping the sky, examining so-called light fossils and sound echoes from the Big Bang by looking at background radiation. When the light first burst out, it was blinding, but it is now fractions of a degree above absolute zero, Lawrence said.
The space telescope is expected to keep transmitting data until late this year, when it runs out of cooling fluid.
Planck's examination of the Big Bang's afterglow set the universe's age at about 13.8 billion years. Scientists often round up to 14 billion years anyway, and Caltech's Carroll said an additional 100 million years is nothing — like adding a month to the age of a 13-year-old. But 100 million years is important, countered Planck scientist Martin White: "100 million years here and there really start to add up."
The new results also mean there's slightly less dark energy in the universe than scientists figured. Instead of 71.4 percent of the universe being that mysterious force, it's 68.3 percent. This dark energy is smoothly spread throughout the universe and gives the "push" to its expansion, Carroll said.
The results also slightly boosted the amount of dark matter in the universe — up to 26.8 percent — and more normal matter, up to 4.9 percent. The concept known as the Hubble constant, which measures how fast the universe is expanding, was adjusted to be about 3 percent slower than scientists had thought.
But the bigger picture was how Planck fit the inflation theory, which physicists came up with more than 30 years ago.
Inflation tries to explain some nagging problems left over from the Big Bang. Other space probes have shown that the geometry of the universe is predominantly flat, but the Big Bang said it should curve with time. Another problem was that opposite ends of space are so far apart that they could never have been near each other under the normal laws of physics, but early cosmic microwave background measurements show they must have been in contact.
Inflation says the universe swelled tremendously, going "from subatomic size to something as large as the observable universe in a fraction of a second," Greene said.
Planck shows that inflation is proving to be the best explanation for what happened just after the Big Bang, but that doesn't mean it is the right theory or that it even comes close to resolving all the outstanding problems in the theory, Efstathiou said.
There was an odd spike in some of the Planck temperature data that hinted at a preferred direction or axis that seemed to fit nicely with the angle of our solar system, which shouldn't be, he said.
But overall, Planck's results touched on mysteries of the universe that have already garnered scientists three different Nobel prizes. Scientists studying cosmic background radiation won Nobels in 1978 and 2006, and other work on dark energy won the Nobel in 2011.
At the news conference, Efstathiou said the pioneers of inflation theory should start thinking about their own Nobel prizes. Two of those theorists — Paul Steinhardt of Princeton and Andreas Albrecht of University of California Davis — said before the announcement that they were sort of hoping that their inflation theory would not be bolstered.
That's because taking inflation a step further leads to a sticky situation: An infinite number of universes.
To make inflation work, that split-second of expansion may not stop elsewhere like it does in the observable universe, Albrecht and Steinhardt said. That means there are places where expansion is zooming fast, with an infinite number of universes that stretch to infinity, they said.
Steinhardt dismissed any talk of a Nobel.
"This is about how humans figure out how the universe works and where it's going," Steinhardt said.
Efstathiou said the Planck results ultimately could spin off entirely new fields of physics — and some unresolvable oddities in explaining the cosmos.
"You can get very, very strange answers to problems when you start thinking about what different observers might see in different universes," he said.
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A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, The Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition
Priscilla Susan Bury's remarkable contribution, A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae, depicts flowers with six stamens. Of elephant-size, it is the largest scale, most unusual and rarest of all 19th-century botanicals. Comprised of 51 aquatint engravings produced in ten parts from 1831 to 1834 by renowned London engraver, Robert Havell, Jr., these rich aquatint engravings are partly printed in color and partly hand-colored. Also the publisher of this work, Robert Havell produced Bury's folio at the same time that he was engraving John James Audubon's plates. John James Audubon was listed among the subscribers to this splendid 19th-century botanical folio. Only 80 subscriptions were sold.
Wilfred Blunt, author of The Art of Botanical Illustration, writes, "Mrs. Edward Bury…was the artist of the impressive Selection of Hexandrian Plants (1831—34), certainly one of the most effective color-plate folios of its period…. The "Hexandrian" flowers — lilies, crinums, pancratiums and hippeastriums — are executed in fine-grained aquatint, partly printed in colour, and retouched by hand."
In his work, Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early nineteenth centuries, 1970, Gordon Dunthorne refers to Bury prints from this folio as "Finely coloured plates of perfect technique, very decorative and "modern" in feeling, of amaryllis, crinum, pancratium and lilies. Some plates show the bulb and stalk, leaves and blossom."
Mrs. Edward Bury (c. 1799—1870), née Priscilla Susan Falkner, was the daughter of a well-placed family. Exotic plants were grown in the hot houses at her family's estate, Fairfield, near Liverpool, where, as a young girl, she began painting flowers. The Victorian tradition viewed women illustrating flowers as "genteel, diverting and instructive study [so] that the fair sex could find amusement…." The talented Bury's "Hexandrian" watercolor flower "portraits", as she called them, were of lilies, crinums, pancratiums, and hippeastrums.
Priscilla Susan Bury was encouraged in her botanical painting pursuits by a local botanist, William Rowe, and her distinguished friends, the zoologist William Swainson and William Roscoe. She also received technical expertise from the staff at the Liverpool Botanical Gardens. Unlike her contemporaries, Pierre-Joseph Redouté or Pierre-Antoine Poiteau, Priscilla Susan Bury was not trained as a botanist or artist, yet she occupies a singular position in botanical art.
Established in 1999, Oppenheimer Editions has partnered with prestigious museums to make prints from their holdings. Works from the New-York Historical Society's unrivaled collections of John James Audubon's watercolors and the Hudson River School paintings are examples of art that otherwise would be unobtainable. Among the institutional collections we have partnered with are the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These are not mere reproductions. They are limited-edition fine art prints made with the finest quality archival pigments on rag watercolor paper and executed to exacting standards.


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Swift Code / BIC (Bank Identifier Code) Details for AILULUL1 and AILULUL1___
AILULUL1 is the swift code for Primary Office of AISM LUXEMBOURG Bank in LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg. Since this swift code belongs to a primary office of the bank, it can have an optional branch code "___". This swift code belongs to a financial institution.
Swift Code is also known as SWIFT-BIC, BIC (Bank Identifier Code), or SWIFT ID.Bank Identifier Code or BIC for AISM LUXEMBOURG is also AILULUL1 and AILULUL1___.
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|AILULUL1 Swift Code for primary office is generally formatted as 8 characters.
AILULUL1___ Swift Code for primary office can have optional ___ at the end.
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What is a SWIFT Code / BIC (Bank Identifier Code)
Swift Code is a unique identification code for a particular bank. It is a standard format for Business Identifier Codes (BICs, previously known as Bank Identifier Codes). It is technically used to identify banks and financial institutions globally distinctively - it says who and where they are. People use these codes to transfer money within banks for international wire transfers (the reason you're probably here looking up for info). SWIFT codes and BIC codes are same and the terms are interchangeable.
Parts of Swift Code AILULUL1 and AILULUL1___
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- Branch Code - This is an optional 3-digit code. It states a particular branch instead of the bank's head office. The Branch Code for this is ___.
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CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS, May 24, 2012 — Zuri, my sister-in-law Tracy and I are in Barbados for a little R&R after a whirlwind Spelman Commencement Weekend. It also happens to be my father's birthday. He would be 115.
In a column he published shortly after his 43rd birthday in 1940, he uses the occasion to commemorate Empire Day, the birthday of Queen Victoria, with whom he shared a natal day:
"It is difficult if not at all impossible for ye paragrapher to forget Empire Day, though we may be many years removed from the British Empire, because it was on that day our late beloved mother told us we 'came from somewhere in a box.' Most readers of this column think we should have been left in the box."
Tomorrow, I have an appointment with a specialist in Barbados genealogy who is going to try to help me get to the bottom of that box.
For today we'll take a tour of the island, hit the beach and pour a libation in honor of Ebenezer's birthday.


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Racing President auditions were held Saturday at Nationals Park, continuing
a 5-year tradition of assembling Mount Rushmore hopefuls for tests of speed, stamina, and silliness on Presidents Day weekend.
The Nationals received over 150 applications for the coveted president positions according to Entertainment coordinator Tom Davis, and 60 applicants were selected to receive
invitations to Saturday's tryouts.
Candidates were asked to run a 40-yard dash in costume, compete against each other in two races, demonstrate their dancing and celebrating skills, and complete a panel interview with the entertainment staff.
For those who'd never run before in a 10-foot high, 45-pound costume, wind gusts of up to 60 mph added to the degree-of-difficulty; but the conditions
were a welcome alternative to last season for returning candidates, who last year had to race in two feet of snow.
As in previous years, Teddy Roosevelt was absent from the proceedings, but the contestants were able to run in the traditional 2006-2010 period garb costumes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
Our video chronicle of the day:
This year, three guest media candidates donned the famous costumes on Saturday, resulting in some great additional perspectives for PR fans. Danny Rouhier from WJFK 106.7 The Fan filed this video chronicle, Washington Post fitness columnist Lenny Bernstein added his outstanding perspective, and Dave Levy from WeLoveDC added this terrific report.